History Film / GhostbustersFrozenEmpire

* TheStinger: [[spoiler:The Mini-Pufts hijack a Stay-Puft Marshmallow shipping truck from a hapless driver at a gas station.]]

** Downplayed, but during the final battle, [[spoiler:Nadeem's lighter runs out, leaving him without a catalyst for his abilities and leaving the team at Garraka's mercy. If this were the old days, Ray (a prolific smoker during the original films), could easily toss Nadeem his own lighter. Unfortunately, as Ray laments, he quit smoking after ''Ghostbusters II'' (and thus hasn't carried a lighter for the better part of 30 years). Ooops.]]

* TookALevelInBadass: After being helpless victims in ''Afterlife'', Callie and Grooberson are now fully-fledged Ghostbusters. Janine also suits up for the first time in the live-action canon.

* TookALevelInBadass: After being helpless victims in ''Afterlife'', Callie and Grooberson are now fully-fledged Ghostbusters.

* FailedASpotCheck: [[spoiler:Peck's fatal mistake in the final scene. He's intent on using the citywide damage from the Garraka Crisis to finally shut down the Ghostbusters and arrest them all. He's so intent that it doesn't immediately register with him that New Yorkers and the Press are overwhelmingly rallying in favor of the Ghostusters. By the time he finally realizes public opinion's ''not'' on his side and backs off, it's too late (as Winston is able to twist Peck's words of condemnation into words of endorsement and support).]]

* FailedASpotCheck: [[spoiler:Peck's fatal mistake in the final scene. He's intent on using the citywide damage from the Garraka Crisis to finally shut down the Ghostbusters and arrest them all. He's so intent that it doesn't immediately register with him that New Yorkers and the Press are overwhelmingly rallying in favor of the Ghostusters. By the time he finally realizes public opinion's ''not'' on his side, it's too late as Winston is able to twist Peck's words of condemnation into words of endorsement and support.]]

* CruelMercy: At the end of the film, [[spoiler:Winston decides to give Mayor Peck cover when his condemning statement of the Ghostbusters was going against the positive feedback from the masses and the press, stating that [[BlatantLies Peck was not only congratulating the Ghostbusters but was 100% supporting them from the start]]. While Mayor Peck is certainly saved from press scrutiny and plummeting approval ratings, he has to live the fact [[SlaveToPR his reputation is now tied to the success and popularity of the Ghostbusters]] and he could no longer go after them anymore]].

** It's left unrevealed why Nadeem's grandmother chose not tell her grandson or anyone else about the Orb. Either she had her own reasons, or alternately (as Ray and Nadeem both agree) she ''did'' try to tell him and Nadeem was simply not paying attention.

-->'''Venkman''': Just do it! We trust you!

* ReunionVow: [[spoiler: Melody helps the Ghostbusters defeat Garraka in the FinalBattle, thus completing her unfinished business on Earth. As she starts to become part of the grand fabric of the universe, she and Phoebe say goodbye to each other, with Phoebe saying they'll say each other again when Phoebe becomes part of the grand fabric.]]

* AncientOrderOfProtectors: The Fire Masters, the ancient order that originally captured the BigBad. [[spoiler:Nadeem is their last descendant]].

--->'''Peter''': Peck, you clown! You're never gonna get it, are you?

* AesopAmnesia: Peck is ''still'' going after the Ghostbusters despite all the trouble it caused for him and New York 40 years ago. [[spoiler:It once again blows up in his face by the end of this film.]]

* FreezeFrameBonus: Posters outside the New York Public Library advertise a cello concerto to be performed by none other than Dana Barrett.

** The DistantPrologue suggests that the Firehouse is a bit of a lightning rod for paranormal situations, as a group of firemen in 1908 from the very same Firehouse witness a paranormal event at the beginning of the film.

** The idea of ghosts [[AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence moving on]] once they have completed their unfinished business was also used in the ''Film/{{Casper}}'' movie. Creator/DanAykroyd had a cameo in character as Ray Stanz failing to successfully bust the Ghostly Trio at the start of the movie.

** The way that [[spoiler: Garakka]] menacingly asks the unfortunate tabocconist he freezes and shatters ''"Are you the [[spoiler: the Fire Master?"]]'' is strikingly similar to how the Zuul-possessed Daina asks Peter "Are you The Keymaster?"

-->'''Winston''': The light is green, [[spoiler:the world is clean]].

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* FreezeFrameBonus: Poseters outside the New York Public Library advertise a cello concerto to be performed by none other than Dana Barrett.

** The way that [[spoiler: Garakka]] menacingly asks the unfortunately tabocconist he freezes and shatters ''"Are you the [[spoiler: the Fire Master?"]]'' is strikingly similar to how the Zuul-possessed Daina asks Peter "Are you The Keymaster?"

* HistoryRepeatsItself: [[spoiler:Once more the Containment Unit gets broken open and all its ghosts are released. Last time it was Peck and this time it's Garraka... though Ol' Dickless is still indirectly involved this time around.]]